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Definition: sea slug
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Definition: sea slug
sea slug
n : any of various marine gastropods of the suborder
Nudibranchia having a shell-less and often beautifully
colored body [syn:
nudibranch]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Sea slug
Sea slug
\Sea" slug`\ (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A holothurian.
(b) A nudibranch mollusk.
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Slug
\Slug\, n. [OE. slugge slothful, sluggen to be slothful;
cf. LG. slukk low-spirited, sad, E. slack, slouch, D. slak,
slek, a snail.]
1. A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard. --Shak.
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2. A hindrance; an obstruction. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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3. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial
pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related
genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed
in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely
allied to the land snails.
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4. (Zo["o]l.) Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth
which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.
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5. A ship that sails slowly. [Obs.] --Halliwell.
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His rendezvous for his fleet, and for all slugs to
come to, should be between Calais and Dover.
--Pepys.
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6. [Perhaps a different word.] An irregularly shaped piece of
metal, used as a missile for a gun.
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7. (Print.) A thick strip of metal less than type high, and
as long as the width of a column or a page, -- used in
spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.
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Sea slug. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any nudibranch mollusk.
(b) A holothurian.
Slug caterpillar. Same as
Slugworm.
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